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2. Deists were people that relied on reason and science rather than religion and the Bible. However, they did believe in a Supreme Being Helped to spark Unitarianism because it looked at religion in a different manner

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2. Unitarianism believed that God existed in one person and not the Trinity, denied Jesus, stressed the goodness of people, free will and salvation through good works (leads to Social Gospel movement), God was loving The Second Great Awakening was a reaction to religious liberalism like the Unitarians

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4. Charles Grandison Finney Powerful oratory and strong message “The Anxious Bench” Most fervent followers, middle-class, offered them an active role in something, spearheaded major crusades of the era

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5. Burned Over District in NY Millierites – Jesus did not arrive 10/22/1844! Methodists and Baptists gained the most converts

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6. Started in up-state NY by Joseph Smith Home grown religion Polygamy Utah US gov’t feared the control of Brigham Young over the territory and sent in the military Polygamy later ruled illegal by Congress

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7. If people were not educated then they might grow up to threaten the establishment – ensured stability and democracy Horace Mann – more and better schools, longer school year, higher pay and expanded curriculum

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10. Cult of domesticity – home was where women should be Catharine Beecher – promoted the cult of domesticity Lucretia Mott – leader of the first phase of the women’s rights movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton – proponent of women’s suffrage

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Hudson River School – romantic images of American landscapes Washington Irving – First Great American literary figure – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow James Fennimore Cooper – first American novelist – The Last of the Mohicans

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William Cullen Bryant – poet and journalist with New York Evening Post Transcendentalism – truth transcends the senses. Cannot be found only through the senses. Bred anti authority and anti establishment Ralph Waldo Emerson – best known transcendentalist. Author, speaker, philosopher. Critic of slavery